ALL PHOTOS: ARTNEWS
As of Saturday, May 13, the Venice Biennale is officially open. There is a lot to see in the Floating City, from pavilions scattered around the town (don’t miss a remarkable Frank Walter retrospective in Antigua and Barbuda’s, to name one) to special shows timed to the biennale (like a great little Lucy McKenzie affair) to the debut of new spaces (like the V-A-C Foundation’s new home in La Serenissima). The main show runs through November 26, but other exhibitions have their own closing dates, so pick the time of your visit carefully. And all the while, beware of flooding, which arrived last Thursday, on the penultimate night of the biennale’s preview days. Below, a few more images of art on view right now.
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Piazza San Marco, flooded on Thursday evening.
Metal walkways carry visitors above the flooding outside the Bauer Hotel.
At V-A-C, a 2017 reconstruction of Aleksandr Rodchenko's Workers' Clubs, International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Paris, 1925.
Barbara Kruger in "Space Force Construction" at the new home of the V-A-C Foundation in Venice, organized with the Art Institute of Chicago.
At V-A-C, a 2017 work by Melvin Edwards, dedicated to Pateh Sabally, a Gambian refugee who drowned in the Grand Canal as onlookers yelled racist remarks at him.
"Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes" at the Museo Correr, with recent photos of people from Azerbaijan.
A photo of Maurizio Cattelan's Untitled (Picasso) (1998) in a window display for Malo clothes.
"La Kermesse Héroïque," a stunning and understated Lucy McKenzie show at Fondazione Bevilacqua, produced by the Fiorucci Art Trust in collaboration with Galerie Buchholz.
Paintings by Frank Walter in the superb solo show of the late artist in the pavilion of Antigua and Barbuda.
A self-portrait by Frank Walter.
Installation view of Somboon Hormtientong's show for Thailand, just outside the main gates of the Giardini.
Firelei Báez's given the ground (the fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it) (2017) in the PinchukArtCentre's Future Generation Art Prize show at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Cassava Garden, 2015, in the PinchukArtCentre's Future Generation Art Prize show at the Palazzo Contarini Polignac.
The home base of Antoni Abad's project for the Catalonian pavilion, "La Venezia che non si vede / Unveiling the unseen," which involves making a user-generated sound map of the city and blind and visually impaired people providing short boat rides.
Venice.